SwingingTheLamp

@SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a joke, since GLONASS is the Russian system. E-LORAN would be ironic, considering that the U.S. demolished its LORAN infrastructure around 2009. What are the odds that the best backup just happens to be Starlink?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  GLONASS?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a joke/urban myth that it’s the law in Wisconsin that restaurants have to serve a slice of cheese with apple pie.

  We did used to have a law that oleo (margarine) had to be sold undyed, which made it a sickly-looking blue-ish white. This was to protect the state’s dairy industry. Only butter could be yellow. People near the borders used to bootleg yellow margarine back across the border from other states. The law was dealt a mortal blow when one of our state representatives publicly took a blind taste test in order to prove that butter was better…

  …and failed. His family had been worried about his health, and was surreptitiously substituting yellow margarine for butter in their meals. (In an amusing historical twist, now that we know about the danger of transfats, we know that butter is indeed better.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That would be cool if movie theatres had VR headsets that I could wear and it would provide closed caption subtitles.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My boss has AR glasses that transcribe conversations in real-time (more or less).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Enough farmland? I suggest reading up on the Ogallala Aquifer. Also, where the best climate zones for agriculture will be 50 years from now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 20M 'people' listed as 100+ years old in the SS database?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like Betteridge’s Law of Headlines applies here, too. If Leon had found fire (fraudulent benefits), he would have posted fire instead of smoke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Borrowing is not an option?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I think that we the people need to assert our own right to name things more often. I don’t recall the latest name of the Brewers stadium in Milwaukee, for example. Whatever company that paid to have them put its name on the front didn’t pay me. It’s “the new County Stadium” as far as I’m concerned.

  (I have no philosophical objection to the name, by the way. Reps of the new company can DM me, we can work out a deal.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: There's a protest today at noon at your state capitol.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s going to take sustained effort over time, so… don’t start? I’m struggling to find the logic here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: There's a protest today at noon at your state capitol.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, that happened in 2011 with the Wisconsin Act 10 protests. It was literally the most peaceful thing you ever saw in your life: singing, chanting, mutual aid stations, pizza, people on their goddamn hands and knees cleaning salt and sand off of the floor of the Capitol in the evenings.

  And the Republicans were cowering in pants-shitting terror! (I mean, more than their usual.) The governor would enter the Capitol through the utility tunnel from a nearby state building. One legislator was terrorized by scratches on their car, and got the State Patrol to investigate the attack. (The SP concluded that the perpetrator was a stone kicked up by the wheels.) I know people who got arrested for having cameras in the Assembly chamber.

  Bunch of craven idiots, the lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Compare the situation to all the noise and outrage, but nobody shows up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And what will not doing it accomplish?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Equal under the law or something⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it need another purpose?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tulsi Gabbard Smears Are Unfounded, Unfair, and Unhelpful⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like the author could’ve cited plenty of examples, then, but just didn’t?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tulsi Gabbard Smears Are Unfounded, Unfair, and Unhelpful⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With that title, I was expecting that the author could name more than 3 alleged smears from long ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That really hurt the elephant’s feelings to be always singled out, so no wonder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And, eliminate Euclidean zoning in the U.S., so that people can live near where they work, or work near where they live. (Not all of us can do it, or like working from home.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda tongue-in-cheek questions, but: Honey isn’t an animal body part, it isn’t produced by animal bodies, so if it is an animal product because bees process it, is wheat flour (for example) an animal product because humans process it? How about hand-kneaded bread? Does that make fruit an animal product because the bees pollinated the flowers while collecting the nectar?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pesto!!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But have we tried feeding a human infant 24kg of fish per week? Y’know, for science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US ports strike causes first shutdown in 50 years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad to see that Pres. Biden isn’t (yet) forcing the workers back on the job this time. Perhaps he should mitigate the effects on the economy by temporarily nationalizing the ports for the 80-day negotiation period, and hiring the longshoremen to work them?